I remember growing up watching PBS and actually thinking the world I would grow up in would surely be better than the world before, especially with so many people watching people like Mr Rogers and Sesame Street and the slew of educational programs like NOVA.
I realize now that I was a shut-in nerd without involved parents and PBS was one of the only channels I could tune in on my little black-and-white television set.
Nobody else watched this stuff. If they did, they didn’t internalize it, and if they did, they took all the wrong lessons from it. (“I AM special just the way I am, that means I deserve to have anything I want! yaaah white power!”)
He’d be telling anyone who would listen that mistakes are just a part of learning, even as our tortured Earth starts making the very air we all breathe make the last humans lungs burn.
That’s why I certainly praise Fred, but could never subscribe to him. He had an unshakable conviction in the intrinsic decency of people. I’ve come to have conviction that the opposite is more often true.
Mr. Rogers would be so ashamed of us. He tried so hard.
I remember growing up watching PBS and actually thinking the world I would grow up in would surely be better than the world before, especially with so many people watching people like Mr Rogers and Sesame Street and the slew of educational programs like NOVA.
I realize now that I was a shut-in nerd without involved parents and PBS was one of the only channels I could tune in on my little black-and-white television set.
Nobody else watched this stuff. If they did, they didn’t internalize it, and if they did, they took all the wrong lessons from it. (“I AM special just the way I am, that means I deserve to have anything I want! yaaah white power!”)
I don’t think Fred would be capable of that.
He’d be telling anyone who would listen that mistakes are just a part of learning, even as our tortured Earth starts making the very air we all breathe make the last humans lungs burn.
That’s why I certainly praise Fred, but could never subscribe to him. He had an unshakable conviction in the intrinsic decency of people. I’ve come to have conviction that the opposite is more often true.
Honestly, I’m glad he’s not here to see this.